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Classic sign a Hans's Place tavern on South Tacoma Way (Highway 99) in Tacoma, Washington
Print version: society6.com/VoronaPhotography/Googie-glassic_Print
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Here's a picture from 2011 that I apparently had overlooked at the time. I cropped it to try and eliminate some of the superfluous distractions.
Yerton Auto Sales is just east of downtown on Main Street, which used to be one of Lakeland's main drags until it was replaced by Memorial Boulevard to the north. It has a nice collection of old signs, motels, and other businesses, though sadly the neighborhood has declined. Yerton's has a pretty cool sign, of which I've seen similar ones around the country in pictures here on Flickr.
Main Street at Ingraham Avenue, Lakeland.
A Detail View of a cutting of the Naugahyde Co.'s vinyl pattern named "Contemporary" in the turquoise color. Customers were offered a choice of 16 colors (4 metallic). THE iconic 1950s vinyl upholstery once found in restaurants and bars all over America. Due to the embossed pattern rolled into the material it was constructed twice as thick as any other nauga product. It wore like iron and I was still seeing this around L.A. in the 1980's in its original applications.
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A really beautiful piece of woven cloth. A gold metallic thread runs horizontally through it.
This pattern and other similar patterns have been revived and are available on a wide variety of gifts and other household items i.e. linens, ceramics, etc. at Googie Heaven.
Richard Koppe Biography : www.flickr.com/photos/juggernautco/19360187/sizes/o/
8x10", clearcoated acrylic on canvas. Sides are black. The colors really pop in person! $75 takes it! Contact me at: theebenlyon@gmail.com
Scenes from the Westlake District of Daly City, California. One of America's first master-planned postwar suburbs, Westlake was the "inspiration" for Malvina Reynolds' song "Little Boxes," which became a hit for folkie Pete Seeger in 1964.
Read more about Westlake at the blog: "America's Most Perfect Ticky-Tacky Suburb."
Taken while heading north on near I-95. I specifically requested that we stay on the back roads so we could drive past South Of The Border so I could get photos of the crazy signage. What a strange anachronistic landscape.
This whole roadside attraction is styled in mid-century modern architecture, specifically Googie Architecture, which is still seen today in businesses that have been around since the 40s/50s/60s (think signage from Denny's, Vegas, old diners, and the Jetsons TV show or elements such as curved lines, asymmetrical stars, UFOs, parabolas, and bright colors -- like what people in the 1950s thought the "future" would look like). I'm a little obsessive about historical American architecture from the 20th century, so I always have my eye out for it -- much to my better half's annoyance because he could truly care less. It tells you about history, man! This stuff is particularly campy, but I love it.
(9/8/2013)
Another view of Owen Cleaners, Paducah, Kentucky. I got lost in Paducah and came across this place by accident. God, I love their sign.
Googie-Style,
Built in 1964
Originally called The United Founders Life Tower
2nd building in the U.S. to have a revolving restaurant
Address: 130 N. Kenwood St., Glendale, CA
Architects: Flewelling & Moody
Year of Completion: 1961
www.laconservancy.org/locations/first-united-methodist-ch...
Cruise night at Johnie's (now Big Boy) Broiler, a Googie coffee shop and drive-in restaurant in Downey. Built in 1958, demolished 2007, rebuilt 2009. 7447 Firestone Boulevard, Downey California.
From BobsBigBoyBroiler.com:
Downey's former Harvey's/Johnie's Broiler has made a major comeback from an utterly illegal Sunday afternoon demolition in 2007. Now a Bob's Big Boy, the restaurant has won the LA Conservancy's President's Award for preservation.
Fujica ST705w on cross processed Kodak Elite Chrome 200 slide film.
Back:
"JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
AERIAL GATEWAY TO THE UNITED STATES
INTERNATIONAL ARRIVAL BUILDING
The dominant structure in the Terminal City symboliz-
ing the airport's international character. It handles
all international air travelers entering the United
States through the Port of New York and is therefore
the country's air age front door.
Manhattan Post Card Pub. Co., Inc., 913 Broadway, N.Y.C., N.Y.
Film transparency showing a daytime view of the front exterior and parking lot of the Hacienda Hotel.
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Scenes from the Westlake District of Daly City, California. One of America's first master-planned postwar suburbs, Westlake was the "inspiration" for Malvina Reynolds' song "Little Boxes," which became a hit for folkie Pete Seeger in 1964.
Read more about Westlake at the blog: "America's Most Perfect Ticky-Tacky Suburb."
Auto World Auto Sales
2240 Northgate Blvd
Sacramento, California
One of several former locations of an Orbit gas station, now a used car dealer specializing in financing people with bad credit or no credit.
The sign says they'll finance you even if your income is from "welfare, SSI, SDI", so I assume they don't mind putting you in a bind.
Quintessential Googie restaurant, and the place which first got me interested in this style of architecture. 6710 La Tijera Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Postcard of Miami Motel - AAA!
US Route 441-221-82, Pearson, Georgia
Tile bathes, tub & shower, Circulating heat, Air-Conditioned, Free TV (lol!), Swimming Pool and Kiddie Pool, 27 units - 2 double beds per unit, Open year round, Restaurant in connection serving the finest in fried chicken, steaks, chops, and sea foods. Phone GA-rden 2-3464.
by Colorama, Columbus, GA
Cover sheet for architectural plans for additions and alterations of The Sands. Architect: Martin Stern, Jr.
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